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From: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>
To: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>,
	Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>,
	kvmarm@lists.linux.dev, Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@huawei.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] KVM: arm64: Use config_lock to protect vgic state
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2023 19:18:05 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZByl7ZB835jySq/x@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o7olgfjs.wl-maz@kernel.org>

On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 12:02:15PM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Mar 2023 21:14:12 +0000,
> Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev> wrote:

[...]

> > --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-its.c
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-its.c
> > @@ -2043,7 +2043,10 @@ static int vgic_its_attr_regs_access(struct kvm_device *dev,
> >  	if (offset & align)
> >  		return -EINVAL;
> >  
> > -	mutex_lock(&dev->kvm->lock);
> > +	if (!lock_all_vcpus(dev->kvm))
> > +		return -EBUSY;
> > +
> > +	mutex_lock(&dev->kvm->arch.config_lock);
> 
> Huh, that's fishy. The whole "lock the VM and the lock the individual
> vcpus" is there to prevent a concurrent creation of a vcpu while we're
> doing stuff that affects them all. Allowing a new vcpu to come online
> while this sequence is happening is ... unexpected.
> 
> Why do we need to drop this initial lock? I'd expect them to be
> completely cumulative.

Urgh.. Yes, you're right. I'll go with kvm->lock -> lock_all_vcpus() ->
kvm->config_lock in the next spin to guard against the vCPU creation
race.

-- 
Thanks,
Oliver

  reply	other threads:[~2023-03-23 19:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-16 21:14 [PATCH v2 0/4] KVM: arm64: Fix vcpu->mutex v. kvm->lock inversion Oliver Upton
2023-03-16 21:14 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] KVM: arm64: Avoid vcpu->mutex v. kvm->lock inversion in CPU_ON Oliver Upton
2023-03-22 12:02   ` Marc Zyngier
2023-03-23 19:47     ` Oliver Upton
2023-03-16 21:14 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] KVM: arm64: Avoid lock inversion when setting the VM register width Oliver Upton
2023-03-22 12:02   ` Marc Zyngier
2023-03-23 19:20     ` Oliver Upton
2023-03-23 19:43       ` Marc Zyngier
2023-03-23 19:49         ` Oliver Upton
2023-03-23 20:09   ` Jeremy Linton
2023-03-23 20:45     ` Oliver Upton
2023-03-23 22:45       ` Jeremy Linton
2023-03-16 21:14 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] KVM: arm64: Use config_lock to protect data ordered against KVM_RUN Oliver Upton
2023-03-16 21:14 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] KVM: arm64: Use config_lock to protect vgic state Oliver Upton
2023-03-22 12:02   ` Marc Zyngier
2023-03-23 19:18     ` Oliver Upton [this message]
2023-03-23 22:48 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] KVM: arm64: Fix vcpu->mutex v. kvm->lock inversion Jeremy Linton

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